Tonight is a special show. My first conducted composition for large ensemble. It’s big. It’s beautiful. Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon on the only date it can happen – Mon Dec 7 @ The Makeout Room in San Francisco. Rehearsal last night was very productive, [...]
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Posted 07 December 2009
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Tagged: Bobby Ray, Brian Good, CD Cummings, Daryl Shawn, Dave Jess, David Slusser, Dylan Champagne, Eli Crews, Geo Kitta, Glenn Branca, John Shiurba, Katherine Copenhaver, Moe Staiano, Nils Erickson, Pat Spurgeon, Reid Johnston, Rhys Chatham, Suki O'Kane, Wayne Grim
I’ve been crazy busy with music goings on… Just finished a great tracking session with The Bodice Rippers at New Improved Recording in Oakland with the wonderful Eli Crews at the board, and I am doing some more tracking for my next instrumentals release with Wil Hendricks and Pat Spurgeon in a few hours…aaaah!
However, the [...]
Played a fun show at this past saturday night at a Harley Davidson/Waylon Jennings/Slayer/San Jose Sharks fan/dive bar in Pacifica, CA with Reid Johnston’s tongue-in-cheek country rock project, The Ray Johnson Band. With CD covers like Gone (pictured left), patriotic tunes with sing along choruses like ‘Lets take one in the ass for America!’, good [...]
The 8th annual Starry Plough Murder Ballads Bash this past Halloween eve was really great. I was there with the Bodice Rippers performing, Tigerero our tale of death in the jungle and Options, a klezmer inspired song that muses upon all of one’s post mortem options. Great sets by Dylan Champagne, Penelope Houston, John Shiurba, [...]
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Posted 04 November 2009
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Tagged: Blunderbusst, Bodice Rippers, Dylan Champagne, Happy Clams, John Shiurba, Loretta Lynch, Luther Monday, Maurice Tani, Penelope Houston, Starry Plough, Suki O'Kane, Whore
Prehistoric Horse paid a visit to Verdant Studio up in Athens, VT this past week. Verdant is run by Pete Weiss, for years the co-owner of Zippah Studio in Boston (along with my old EU Wurlitzer buddy, Brian Charles), a cozy rural VT studio chock full of nice gear that subscribes to the ‘all in [...]
Sat Nov 7 10:00P
w/ Ray Johnson Band
Winters Bar – Pacifica, CA
I’ll be dealing some telecaster licks w/ Reid Johnston and Co. at, and I quote, “Pacifica’s premier dive bar – WINTER’S. It has been said that the quality of coastal bimbo at Winter’s is unmatched. We’re going to bring in our oddball country and morph [...]
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Posted 26 October 2009
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After much free improvised work the past few years, I am careening back into the realm of more structured music. It is a necessary yin and yang balance, but pendulum always swings…and to that end, I am working several angles.
One is becoming a better musician and player – more practice, learning, listening, theory, etc. [...]
Played a wonderful show at The ResBox Series, curated and hosted by Hans Fjellestad, at the classy Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.
Andrew Pask and Jim McAuley put in a cool first set culminating in a final bit of mayhem on a seven foot long 12 string instrument played by Jim with metal batons. A [...]
Prehistoric Horse (David Grollman, Valerie Kuehne, and Lucio Menegon) are an improv trio from NYC and Oakland who generate spasmodic bursts of clatter and skree via cello, drums, and guitar, typically played in ways that would make conventional music teachers shudder in horror.
Seattle Stranger
Very experimental music…like psychotropic microdot jazz disharmony mesmerandum
Ivy Room Hootenanny fan after [...]
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Posted 23 September 2009
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Performed a solo set at the Flux 53 venue in Oakland this past Saturday evening as a result of Rent Romus graciously sneaking me onto the Edgetone Records Mudwagon CD release show – even though I do not appear on that fine slab of plastic. I followed a very good set by Jay Korber (of [...]
